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Title: El Kab

Author: J.E. Quibell

Release Date: December 9, 2008 [EBook #27466]

Language: English

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EGYPTIAN RESEARCH ACCOUNT,
1897.

EL KAB.

BY
J. E. QUIBELL.

IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE WORK OF
SOMERS CLARKE AND J. J. TYLOR.

LONDON:
BERNARD QUARITCH, 15, PICCADILLY, W.
1898.

LONDON:
PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,
STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION.

SECT. PAGE
1. Course of work 1
2. Chance of inscribed tombs 2
3. Description of site 2

CHAPTER I.
THE EARLIEST TOMBS.

4. Mastabas and stairway tombs 3
5. Ka-mena mastaba 3
6. A mastaba 4
7. Compound mastaba 4
8. Nefer-shem-em 5
9. Early black cylinder 5
10. Smaller mastabas 5
11. Stairway tomb with inscribed cylinder 7
12. Open graves 8
13. _Maj[=u]r_ and cist burials 9

CHAPTER II.
DATE OF THE "NEW RACE" REMAINS.

14. Variety of names 11
15. First dating erroneous 11
16. Evidence from El Kab 12
17. From other sites 12
18. Doubtful points 13

CHAPTER